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A guide for members: Your Move

How to lead a year with the mentor your association matched you with.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

A one-page brief

Brief your mentor on one page

Your mentor works elsewhere, so give them the picture before the first meeting.

  • Where I work now role and field
  • Two goals for the year tied to my profession
  • Where I am stuck one or two things
  • What I need from you advice, contacts, a view

How you will work

Agree how you will work together

Settle the rhythm, what stays private and how either of you can end it.

Your agenda

Send the agenda yourself

Two days before, write what you did, what you learned and one decision.

  • What I did since last time
  • What I learned one line
  • Where I got stuck one thing
  • One decision where I want advice

If-then plans

Leave every meeting with an if-then plan

Plans that name when and where you will act raise the odds you follow through.

94 Studies in which if-then plans had a medium to large effect on reaching goals Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006

Advice, not feedback

Ask for advice, not feedback

Asking for advice brings more concrete and usable input than asking for feedback.

  • What would you do in my place? Advice: concrete and forward.
  • What do you think of my plan? Feedback: polite and vague.

A mid-point review

Review the year at the halfway point

Halfway is the moment to change a goal, the rhythm or what you ask for.

  • Are both goals still right?
  • Are we meeting often enough?
  • What has helped most so far?
  • What should we try differently?

Doing it on Mentornity

Work with your mentor on Mentornity

Your profile, the agreement and your mentor’s open slots are all in your program.

Complete your profile

Your goals and background help your mentor prepare.

Book your mentor’s open slots

Times show in your own time zone.

Fill in the meeting form

If your program uses one, it reopens with your saved answers.

Send your agenda

Every message also reaches your mentor by email.

Turn on browser notifications

Bookings, changes and messages reach you at once.

Complete your profile

Your goals and background help your mentor prepare.

Book your mentor’s open slots

Times show in your own time zone.

Fill in the meeting form

If your program uses one, it reopens with your saved answers.

Send your agenda

Every message also reaches your mentor by email.

Turn on browser notifications

Bookings, changes and messages reach you at once.

Write your one-page brief today

Send it to your mentor before your first meeting and ask what they need from you.

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